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Indian firms adopt server virtualization more: Survey

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MUMBAI, INDIA: Symantec Corporation today revealed the India findings of its '2011 Virtualization and Evolution to the Cloud Survey'. The survey focused on how organizations plan to move business-critical initiatives to virtualization and hybrid cloud computing environments.

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The Symantec commissioned survey covered 3,700 enterprises including large, medium and small across segments in 35 different countries based in North and Latin America, Europe, Middle East Asia (EMEA), Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) regions. From India, 200 firms participated in this survey.

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About 57 per cent Indian firms have adopted server virtualization against 45 per cent globally, while one-third of 200 Indian firms quizzed are discussing or are at planning stage for private and hybrid cloud deployments, the survey found.

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“Indian enterprises are discussing virtualization and private/hybrid clouds. While agility and affordability are the main drivers, having fewer legacy systems is helping this transition,” Vijay Mhaskar, Symantec’s vice president - Information Management Group, said.

“The transition brings in a new set of challenges related to security, scalability, and disaster preparedness,” Mhaskar added.

Server and storage virtualization topped as the most mature technologies with 31 and 26 percent of enterprises implementing it, while Private Storage-as-a-Services stood at just 21 percent of adoption, the survey noted.   

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“Awareness around these emerging technologies is prevalent but Indian enterprise is yet to move completely. There is a wait and watch approach to the level of maturity in the market before implementation,” Anand Naik, Symantec’s director -Technology Sales (India & SAARC).

“Indian CIOs evaluate new technologies with a business driven ROI approach to technology decision—making to meet company’s objectives,” Naik added.

However, the study found gaps between expectations and reality which indicate organizations are still learning about technologies’ capability and challenges they bring along.

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Server virtualization projects were most successful with only a nine per cent average gap between expected and realized goals. The biggest gaps occurred in scalability, uptime and reduction in capital expenditures.

While, the average shortfall in storage virtualization was 31 per cent with disappointments coming in reducing operating expenditures, agility and keeping pace with emerging trends.

On the other side, 54 per cent firms are considering private storage-as-a-service, but these projects are challenging to implement and fall short of expectations by 30 per cent, the survey stated.

The respondents for the survey included key IT and business professionals in organizations that included CIO, CISO, CEO, CFO and other strategic IT and C-level professionals.

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